1923 - 1993
Leonid Iovich Gaidai (Russian: Леонид Иович Гайдай; 30 January 1923 – 19 November 1993) was a Soviet and Russian comedy film director who enjoyed immense popularity and broad public recognition in the former Soviet Union. His films broke theatre attendance records and were some of the top-selling DVDs in Russia. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leonid Gaidai has received more than 153,550 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Leonid Gaidai is the 278th most popular film director (up from 288th in 2019), the 519th most popular biography from Russia (up from 538th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Russian Film Director.
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Among film directors, Leonid Gaidai ranks 278 out of 1,580. Before him are William A. Wellman, Stanley Donen, Germaine Dulac, Michael Bay, Darren Aronofsky, and Tengiz Abuladze. After him are Karel Zeman, George Miller, Rouben Mamoulian, Mikhail Kalatozov, Nanni Moretti, and Krzysztof Zanussi.
1896 - 1975
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 272
1924 - 2019
HPI: 67.44
Rank: 273
1882 - 1942
HPI: 67.44
Rank: 274
1965 - Present
HPI: 67.43
Rank: 275
1969 - Present
HPI: 67.39
Rank: 276
1924 - 1994
HPI: 67.36
Rank: 277
1923 - 1993
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 278
1910 - 1989
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 279
1945 - Present
HPI: 67.24
Rank: 280
1897 - 1987
HPI: 67.23
Rank: 281
1903 - 1973
HPI: 67.21
Rank: 282
1953 - Present
HPI: 67.21
Rank: 283
1939 - Present
HPI: 67.16
Rank: 284
Among people born in 1923, Leonid Gaidai ranks 84. Before him are Lloyd Shapley, Reinhart Koselleck, Queen Anne of Romania, Valentina Cortese, Hwang Jang-yop, and Sergey Akhromeyev. After him are Victoria de los Ángeles, Ousmane Sembène, Zlatko Čajkovski, Rudolph A. Marcus, Antony Flew, and Dexter Gordon. Among people deceased in 1993, Leonid Gaidai ranks 59. Before him are Kakuei Tanaka, Eddie Constantine, Bruno Pontecorvo, Silvina Ocampo, Don Ameche, and Luciano Leggio. After him are E. P. Thompson, Nina Berberova, Ishirō Honda, Kenneth E. Boulding, Wolfgang Lotz, and Desanka Maksimović.
1923 - 2016
HPI: 67.62
Rank: 78
1923 - 2006
HPI: 67.60
Rank: 79
1923 - 2016
HPI: 67.57
Rank: 80
1923 - 2019
HPI: 67.49
Rank: 81
1923 - 2010
HPI: 67.40
Rank: 82
1923 - 1991
HPI: 67.36
Rank: 83
1923 - 1993
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 84
1923 - 2005
HPI: 67.28
Rank: 85
1923 - 2007
HPI: 67.04
Rank: 86
1923 - 1998
HPI: 67.03
Rank: 87
1923 - Present
HPI: 66.91
Rank: 88
1923 - 2010
HPI: 66.86
Rank: 89
1923 - 1990
HPI: 66.83
Rank: 90
1918 - 1993
HPI: 67.83
Rank: 53
1913 - 1993
HPI: 67.78
Rank: 54
1913 - 1993
HPI: 67.62
Rank: 55
1903 - 1993
HPI: 67.53
Rank: 56
1908 - 1993
HPI: 67.51
Rank: 57
1925 - 1993
HPI: 67.50
Rank: 58
1923 - 1993
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 59
1924 - 1993
HPI: 67.06
Rank: 60
1901 - 1993
HPI: 67.01
Rank: 61
1911 - 1993
HPI: 66.94
Rank: 62
1910 - 1993
HPI: 66.87
Rank: 63
1921 - 1993
HPI: 66.86
Rank: 64
1898 - 1993
HPI: 66.81
Rank: 65
Among people born in Russia, Leonid Gaidai ranks 519 out of 2,688. Before him are Sergey Akhromeyev (1923), Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov (1890), Aleksandr Mikhailovich of Tver (1301), Vyacheslav Tikhonov (1928), Mikhail of Tver (1271), and Nikolay Gumilyov (1886). After him are Viktor Suvorov (1947), Galina Vishnevskaya (1926), Valery Bryusov (1873), Lyudmila Ulitskaya (1943), Valeri Kubasov (1935), and Nikolai Medtner (1879).
1923 - 1991
HPI: 67.36
Rank: 513
1890 - 1946
HPI: 67.36
Rank: 514
1301 - 1339
HPI: 67.35
Rank: 515
1928 - 2009
HPI: 67.35
Rank: 516
1271 - 1318
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 517
1886 - 1921
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 518
1923 - 1993
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 519
1947 - Present
HPI: 67.28
Rank: 520
1926 - 2012
HPI: 67.27
Rank: 521
1873 - 1924
HPI: 67.27
Rank: 522
1943 - Present
HPI: 67.24
Rank: 523
1935 - 2014
HPI: 67.24
Rank: 524
1879 - 1951
HPI: 67.23
Rank: 525
Among film directors born in Russia, Leonid Gaidai ranks 7. Before him are Andrei Tarkovsky (1932), Konstantin Stanislavski (1863), Andrei Konchalovsky (1937), Nikita Mikhalkov (1945), Lev Kuleshov (1899), and Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893). After him are Elem Klimov (1933), Alexander Sokurov (1951), Yuri Norstein (1941), Ladislas Starevich (1882), Eldar Ryazanov (1927), and Giorgi Shengelaia (1937).
1932 - 1986
HPI: 81.03
Rank: 1
1863 - 1938
HPI: 79.72
Rank: 2
1937 - Present
HPI: 70.75
Rank: 3
1945 - Present
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 4
1899 - 1970
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 5
1893 - 1953
HPI: 68.95
Rank: 6
1923 - 1993
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 7
1933 - 2003
HPI: 67.08
Rank: 8
1951 - Present
HPI: 66.68
Rank: 9
1941 - Present
HPI: 65.32
Rank: 10
1882 - 1965
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 11
1927 - 2015
HPI: 65.28
Rank: 12
1937 - 2020
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 13